When Jennifer-Ruth Green, a black woman, won an overwhelming victory in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District Republican primary this month, she helped improve the chances that the GOP would take the once-reliable Democrat district in the general election.
Not only did Green, a political newcomer, beat an accomplished politician, Blair Milo, who served as mayor of LaPorte Indiana and is currently in the administration of Indiana’s Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, she also won by a comfortable margin.
In a race that included Green, Milo, and another conservative campaigner who got 15 percent of the vote, Green very nearly go a majority of the vote, winning 49.2 percent of the Republican primary voters, according to the final vote totals at Ballotopedia. Milo won 18 percent of the vote….